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From: clouds@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Kathy Strong)
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Subject: Re: American Heritage Dictionary for Macs
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Date: 15 Jan 91 01:17:13 GMT
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In article <50722@cornell.UUCP> hal@cs.cornell.edu (Hal Perkins) writes:
>I was browsing in the bookstore today and discovered that there is a
>Macintosh version of the American Heritage Dictionary, complete with a
>thesaurus.  Does anybody have any experience with this?  Is it any
>good?  Is it worth the 3MB of disk space that it occupies?
>
I second the motion for feedback from anyone who's used it. The American
Heritage is one of my favorite dictionaries--the Usage Notes alone are
worth the price of admission for me, as I like to use the word with just
the right connotation, and the book is full of notes comparing flavors A
through Z of a word and distinguishing the nuances.

I haven't had any luck finding it through the big Mac mail-order houses,
so far. Hal, maybe if you and I start a phone-in campaign...?

--K

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